This past June, my wife and I drove from Tucson, Ariz. to Issaquah to attend the graduation of our grandson from Skyline High School. Over the years, we have attended about 20 different graduation ceremonies from various high schools and colleges. This most recent one of Skyline High school was undoubtedly the worst one we have ever witnessed. It was ruined by the choice of venue — Safeco Field. It was extremely noisy from train and truck traffic. It was uncomfortably drafty. But was mainly deficient because of its woefully inadequate public address system. We could hear virtually nothing of the ceremony. Graduation from high school is one time in each person’s life that he should know that the public recognition of his name and achievement is heard.

I wrote to a member of the school board about this but have yet to receive a reply. It is a shame that the graduation class had a milestone in their lives marred because of inadequate preparations by whoever was in charge of selecting Safeco Field.

My wife and I are hoping that you will publish this letter to make sure that parents of next year’s graduation class may do whatever is necessary to remedy the situation and insist that a more suitable venue be selected.

Sune Timour,

Tucson, Ariz.